Hey cool olives out there 😊 Can we all share some makeup recommendations down here so we can get some ideas? I'm waiting to see your choices to add some products to my whislist 🖤
I am loving the Physicians Formula shimmer strips for highlight, eyes and sometimes even blush. It has that champagne type of tone to it. Nice and subtle, but healthy looking. Because of being "delicate", I also like to keep newspaper with my lipsticks. If you blot with it, it'll impart a little sheet black to tone down too- bright lipstick colors.
María I’m pretty sure I am a cool and delicate. I have that greenish/gray cast to my skin. Anyway I have found some favorites after much experimentation. First I don’t use foundation as I could never find a match, so just tinted sunscreen. Favorites include CoverFX bronzer (Sunkissed), CoverFX highlight (Moonlight), Elf small blush (Mellow Mauve), and NYX intense butter gloss (Tres Leches) is my nearly perfect nude. I enjoy the Hourglass unlocked palette, but have to go easy as its almost too dark for me. Hope some of this helps. 💕💕
@@krisr92 Totally agree in the foundation, that's way I'm pretty obsessed with skincare so I don't need it! Thanks a lot for your advices I'm going to google swatches asap! Thank you Kris 🖤
@@maria4118 Me too! We olives need to have good skin because we can't find foundation 😂😭 But for make-up, I find that purples compliment the skin really nicely.
Its sad that I have spent decades thinking that I was warm-toned....while knowing that a warm-toned foundation would always be too yellow for my skin tone. So eventually I began looking for shades with a neutral undertone (because "cool" shades are too cool). Thank you for the demonstration and for making this so clear!
It's great that you clarified this! I find that the confusion with olive skin is the most common with people who are warm and delicate. They face the typical WD confusion (I look kind of warm, but yellow looks bad on me, but blue is ok, and silver is better than gold etc.), they have no clue what their undertone is anymore, and then they come across an article that explains to them that they just have olive skin, and olive skin is almost like a third category with its own set of recommendations. They think they've found the answer, but the reality is that it leaves them even more confused than they were.
I know tell me about it!! I've been so frustrated with seeing 'olive' as an additional category....cool, warm, olive.....ohhhh and as a bonus, my favorite is 'cool, warm, olive, deep'. Olive has become a catch all for anyone who's told by society that they should be warm when they aren't, so that's you know, the majority of the people of the world (east asians, north africa/arab, india/pakistan, thailand, south america, mexico, I'm sure I've missed a ton, Spain, Italy, maybe some Greece, Portugal.....REDHEADS for goodness sake!).
@@merriamstyle Yes...Very frustrating how, when something's not completely obvious, but there's _nothing_ abstract about it, people who don't understand it well enough tend to mystify it and present it to everyone else as something abstract. And people gladly buy into it! And then we get things like "Olive skin looks warm, but is cool at its core". What core? A color _is_ what it looks like. Why would my skin, which looks subtly golden (it's WD), actually work best with icy blues, because that's somehow its essence? Doesn't make any sense.
yes *thank you* a skin color is a color after all....yes, some lighting will sometimes reflect the cool tones disproportionately, and some lighting will reflect the warm tones disproportionately, but in neutral daylight, there is such a thing as your skin's actual color when all those different factors (types of melanin, blood vessels, other stuff) all combine to make your skin tone.
@@merriamstyle Yes...And the same type of reasoning would be laughed out of the room if it were said about the color of anything else but skin. Imagine if I wrote a whole article about how my white wall actually has a yellow undertone with white overtones because when it's affected by the light of my lamp, it looks yellow! Everyone would realize that the reasoning is ridiculous. And I guess that's also a downside of spacial metaphors: they can be misleading. An undertone really refers to a pigment _within_ the color, i.e. one of the pigments that make it up, but the language makes people think that it's somehow underneath, and then that there's also something separate on top.
Royal blue is a cool tone blue looks amazing on cool olive skin (vs. the warm bright blue you showed in video). I get so many compliments when wearing a royal blue and emerald green. For lipstick, go for a blue red (which is a cool red) but not orange red.
Every time I watch these videos, I feel like I understand everything better, but then they say something that throws me off completely, and I end up even more confused..
I grew up feeling my most confident wearing a cool red, so it confused me that I didn’t look as good in other similarly bold/jewel tones. Thank you for explaining why cool red and emerald green look great on me but bright blue and even white have always seemed a bit off! White always felt a bit overpowering, so for my wedding I wore a red dress instead of white. I now feel so validated for my gut feeling!!
yes so validating! I agree with you about white feeling overpowering. I feel like a stadium light when I wear white, but I don't feel as overwhelmed in all black or all cranberry.
Oh god this is EXACTLY the video I needed - now I know I’m fair olive cool radiant. I’ve been matched incorrectly by many, many baffled Sephora employees, and always felt there was just something wrong. Emerald green, sapphire blue, and cool deep red are the colors I look best in, gold looks like costume jewelry on me, and pure white looks just a little odd. Thanks so much for this!
Violet will look gorgeous on you too. I'm fair olive cool radiant and people always compliment me when I wear violet clothes - especially when I wear them close to my face.
Finally I understand why I look good in emerald green but silver highlighter makes me look strange. Thank you so much for this video, Merriam!!!!!!! 💗💗💗
Wow i think i just figure out that i have a light olive skin tone (possibly cool, still haven't figured out what colors suit me). I've always ended up with "neutral" foundations because neither warm or cool descriptions seemed right, and olive was described as tan/mediterranean. I am naturally pale but TAN very easily (don't burn), with skin that looks both yellow and gray? Your example of gemma chan was so helpful! More non-white examples please :)
Years ago in the 1970's I quickly found out that I was cool olive skin tone in a very awfully rude way. I sat in a beauty salon that had florescent lighting. Florescent lights have green and blue spectrum that completely flood your olive skin making you look pale, grey, sick, dead and absolutely ugly. Since then beauty salons, offices and stores have been using florescent lights that have conspired to kill my looks. LOL. One episode of Seinfeld even addressed that dilemma. Seinfeld was attracted to a very attractive lady. Each time she sat in regular natural light she looked fine, but when she moved to a seat in the restaurant under florescent lighting, she looked terrible! Seinfeld could not understand how she was beautiful near at a seat near a window facing natural light and terrible when she sat at that specific table. So, if you want to know if you have cool olive skin tone, switch between a florescent light, and day light to see the effects on your skin tone.
I want to say THANK YOU for including Chinese celebrities. There is so little good information on Chinese skin tones on the web. I’m happy to see more makeup companies adding a peach undertone to their foundation lines, as this can flatter us better than yellow and olive undertone foundations. Thank you for this great video! 😘
Thank you so much for this video. While I knew that I'm an olive-type, my skin shade (tan-ness) convinced me that I was some class of Warm. But I never understood why the classic Warm colours (brick red, burnt sienna, yellow ochre) never really worked for me. Your explanation of the gravitation towards emerald and cool reds was the thing that finally made me realise that I'm actually Cool-typed! It also really helped that you found Gemma Chan to show how Optic White looks on a Cool/Delicate person. Being of east asian descent myself, I never realised that skin with a tan like hers (and mine) could have ever been typed as Cool/Delicate.
FINALLY FINDING MY COLOR. This has been honestly life changing. I always thought I had to be warm bc I'm half asian and I can tan but omg I am a COOL & DELICATE.
Thank you! That explains everything. I always thought why being winter colour type I look better in kind of “summer colours”. I just didn’t know I belong to cool delicate olive type.
I'm so glad you brought up the Clear winter olive dilemma! I watched of your other videos, and casually said out loud “huh, I might be olive“ only for my fiance to say “oh yeah, you definitely are!“ as if I hadn't been looking for the answer to my skin tone for YEARS 😅
This is super helpful! I used to have an emerald green top ( cool, delicate olive ,here) and people who have never said one word to me before, went out of their way to compliment me on how great I looked. And blues are very tricky. Never fully got it until now! You really have colors figured out!
I think I'm a muted cool and delicate olive because burgundy looks amazing on me, even burgundy lipstick looks really good, and it's my go-to colour. Even dark plum looks good. I also tend to lean towards ashy browns and beiges, dark and light grey, dark forest greens, dark purple, mauve, taupe and dusty pink. I wore royal blue once and it looked so separate on me that I never wore it again. I've never worn emerald green before, so I can't attest to know whether it looks good on me or not, but according to the other examples it seems like I'm a muted cool and delicate.
This is very interesting. We have very similar looks, hair , eyes, brows, even skin. It's like you could almost be my sister with some different face features. But I would consider myself cool and bright. I am so amazed how skin tone changes everything!
😭😭😭 I wish you would’ve done this years ago. I was always after achieving a nude look but never achieved it. I’m embarrassed to say how much money I spent on makeup. I see it now, I am olive tone Cool and Radiant. Thank you Merriam. 🙏🏻
This is hands down the best cool olive tone video I've ever seen!!! Thank you for breaking down the color theory and the key tips to look out for when determining cool and delicate vs. cool and radiant for us cool olive folks!
I’m Greek and I always knew I was olive but I didn’t know I was also cool until recently.. blows my mind. If I put on cool makeup it looks crazy. I always wear neutral.. it’s not exact but it’s better than cool or warm.
I am warm and delicate Olive but in the cooler side of that. I can support some warm and delicate in clothes but I can’t use those tones on for makeup. I even can use silver highlight and looks great. I suspect is because I have much more pink on my face. In winter, I can even use muted and cool colors and I love how I look in them.
I think I'm warm radient olive and for me a warm orange fits me best, but not too neon orange, I guess it is a good complementary color to the warm green undertone. :) I also like forest green bu it makes me look more yellowish. Google "Eva Longoria green dress" she looks great in forest green but not healthy in cool emerald green.
I believe I'm a warm olive. Navy, maroon suits me a lot! Can almost blindly go for these two. Also grey, dark olive looks great. As the previous person said, dark/burnt orange (not neon) or terracotta will look great as well.
I absolutely love your content! ❤️❤️ You've clarified lifelong questions for me. It seems like I have a cool olive skin tone. I used to think I was just a cool tone, but I've always struggled with certain colors. While navy and muted pink looked very good on me, bright tones make my skin appear gray, and I used to be very confused about why that's the case. I heard about cool undertones looking good in silver, but silver didn’t flatter me at all. Because of that, for a while, I thought I had warm undertones. However, yellow and orange also look hideous on me 😂 until I came across your content, and now everything makes a lot of sense ❤️ Thank you so much for sharing this information!
I'm cool toned and always wondered why I look good in light grey but royal blue seemed "too much" on me; this video taught me I must be cool and delicate. Thank you so much. I would love to see more hair colour and make-up tips, e.g. 'right' vs 'wrong' colours, and also tips for colouring hair as you age - so many hairdressers say to lighten and warm up hair as you get older, but after this video I'm no so sure. Thanks again!
I'm so happy I found that I'm a cool & delicate light olive, I've been so confused about my undertone for so long cause everywhere was telling me I'm a summer but a lot of the blue and pink colours that were recommended looked so off, and now I finally know why!
This explains why never liked nude lipstick or eyeshadow. I wore nude lipstick and people asked if I was felt ok. This is a very helpful information. Thanks
Thank you so much for these videos, they are so helpful ! Could you make a video on how to pick foundation for cool and delicate olive, and also how to differienciate between cool brown and warm brown (I was always told brown was a no-go for cool skin tones) ?
HOLY. CRAP. I fit the cool and delicate skin tone in every single way. This entire time I thought I was warm yellow because I'm asian but would get confused why gold isnt a great color on me. Thank you you're the only person I've seen make color theory make sense.
THANK YOU Merriam you have explained away all of my frustrated confusion about my olive undertone!! 😭😭 I could hug you!! I now know I am cool and delicate and everything from the best colors for me (which are almost exactly the color palette I've recently come up with after discovering I even have olive skin) to explaining why muted red but also emerald green look good on me (which didn't really line up with the rest of what I've been trying to learn about my colors!) -- I can't believe I finally have the answers. Now I have a significantly more exact way of selecting *anything* for my face or wardrobe. I feel so empowered! All I can say is, again, THANK YOU 😃🥰☺
By the way, for anyone reading this who is either still a little confused or who just wants to find someone who matches them here in the comments: I am light/fair skinned (burn easily, lol), of Scandinavian and German decent with a small hint of Jewish heritage. My hair is dark ashy blonde and I have blue eyes with a bit of green, and my best colors are what were listed for cool delicates including sage and hunter green, navy blue and rich, cool burgundy 😊
This is such a helpful video! I must be a delicate cool olive as you describe it. Now my colour choices make much more sense- thank you!! My favourite colours to wear have always been blue shades; specifically light blue, caerulean and muted or dark blue ( but not the very saturated bright blue!); I have lots of navy, love black, off white and adore light pearly greys. Also wear cool leaning dark forest and emerald greens (avoiding those that pulls grass green with more warm or yellow tones) and muted cool raspberry dark reds! I never understood why though. I also like the paler and cool leaning beige tones. I run away from bright and all true warm colours like olive green, bright true red or orange red, maroon, orange, yellow- and if I ended up with such an an item in the past it just sat in my closet unworn. I always thought I was neutral in make up but not quite fitting either until I found out about olive skin and things started to make more of sense.. but when I saw warm colours recommended for olive skin tones I became confused as often these were very bad on me. In make up I feel good with a bit of warmth and feel best in either soft peachy/ muted coral tones leaning nude (or “vivid peachy nudes”)- for example Tom Ford Spanish pink- or mauvy pinks (leaning more mauve than medium saturated rosy pink). Reds are best in duller raspberry/ plummy cool reds ( eg Cherries in the snow by Revlon). Rusty red colours are however awful (for example MAC Chili) as well as most straightforward medium saturated pinks which look a bit shrill. My best pink is pink pout from Revlon which has a lot of mauve and a bit of white in it making this almost mude violet-pink. When feeling daring, Ruby woo from Mac is good (which also pulls blue), and though I own a few bright vivid colours (as in saturated vivid corals or strong fuchsia pinks) I always soften them down to a stain or add a nude on top to find them flattering. Lately I am experimenting with soft grey/ mauve leaning eye makeup and soft denim blue and liking it- my usual is a soft neutral brown in eye makeup and sometimes I wear peachy shadows from the renaissance Anastasia palette which also has cool red tones. I hope this may be useful to someone. Thanks again!
Cool and radiant here!! None of the seasons tests seem to get it right. Your video was perfect and confirms what I have already learned through trial and error!
I’m finally figuring out my skin tones!!! Thank you so much for this video. I’m off to watch warm and delicate Olive because I suspect that’s where I fit.
Oh man... Now I understand why the bright "Clear Winter" colours never quite worked on me. I always felt like I looked grey/ashen. Emerald green, and blue-toned red, have always made me feel so majestic and beautiful. Which means, I'm cool and delicate 🤯 I'm like Rachel Weisz. I have warm eyes, but I'm definitely cool toned. Thank you, so much, for helping me demystify my light olive skin! 🥰
This has definitely made me think! I’m not overly pink undertoned nor am I yellow undertoned and so called “neutral” undertoned foundations make me look dead. Maybe I’m somewhere in the olive camp?
My short attention span just fast forwarded through the asians. My bfs a mix of greek, italian, indian, some other stuff. Hes reddish looking tho. He says im olive complected. He just felt the need to say that & compare. I didnt ask. Still have no clue what that even means 🙄🤷🏻♀️😁. Idk, ppl just say im light skinned. It only sinks in more when im alone like 🤷🏻♀️🤔hmmm... I always forget to compare myself to other "tanners" bc i dont usually think about it other than when im confused looking at my selfies. In person i just look at myself like idk. I just figure im tan. He is a bit darker than me. For a "white"... Dudes, just not idk browninish looking. I hear olives and i just think of eating olives, heh. In my head, yeah. I think im browninsh yellowish.
Very helpful. Your explanation of olive skin tone being the not rosy skin tone was very helpful. I’ve always been perceived as a Winter - dark hair and very light skin. But recently I was draped as a Summer. Your system makes sense of it all. I’m cool and delicate with light olive skin. Now I know why some of the very cool colors don’t work for me. Thanks for your help.
I am still so uncertain... lol. I feel like I'm in the middle between warm and cool. But I definitely identified with the cool delicate criteria: I look pretty good in true green, but not other colors (I sort of hate true red so I've never tried it). And white definitely washes me out, but so does any color that's cooler than my skin tone. And I look positively dead in lavender and pale blue. Typically I stick with gray and deep colors like maroon, navy, and purple... but I feel like I just haven't found the right shades for me. I remember when I was young I had a warm ivory shirt that looked amazing on my skin... so what the heck? Lol...
I am so confused about cool or warm ( I thought cool based on the videos but when I bought cool olive foundation it looked grey ) but this thought of winter vs summer could possibly explain my constant ever changing confusion.
@@paulinacardiel8709 Yes, skin colors change when getting tanned. They climbed a scale upwards. So it could be that you are delicate cool in winter and delicate warm in summer. Thus cooler tones tones fit u better in winter and warmer soft tones fit you better in summer. But radient colors never fit you, i suppose?
Thank you Merriam! My whole life ive been feeling like my skin colour was a curse... and I've been searching for this kind of information for decades I was classed as a autumn because of my yellowish pale olive tones but never looked great in autumn colours. I always been attracted to soft muted shades, so been wearing them just because I like them. You helped me realize that I have a lot of gray in my skin, and seeing the difference between warm and cool olive made me wonder.. can you be right in-between? As I don't look bad in muted warm, nor muted cool.. and sometimes I can get away with wearing bright cool colours, but I could never wear bright warm yellow or warm green. Thank you for your in-depth explanation and please do more of these videos, we pale olives needs all the help we can get. Shopping for clothes and make-up can be very frustrating, especially because not many understand the temperature difference in olives. 🌸
Yes I think so. Everyone’s skin tone is unique to them and in my personal self analysis, could dip into adjacent types. I’ve figured out that I am primarily cool, delicate, and olive when I’ve got zero sun tan (I’m very fair). The colors on the screen were spot on to my best colors with zero tan (time stamp 6:00). I also have clothing that could be considered warm and delicate and some cool and radiant that also look great on me. With the unlimited possibilities of hue, saturation, and chroma, it is likely there will be colors that can work uniquely for an individual but not everyone in the type. By the way, I tend to get more warm pigment in summer which lets me wear a few slightly warmer colors.
Maybe you're neutral, but we all have a side which makes us glow. I have olive skin and I'm a cool neutral. You can see the difference if you put some warm yellow or orange down your neck and black or a real purple tone. Take a picture and see... If the orange/yellow tone looks better on you, you're a warm neutral and if the purple/black looks better you're a cool neutral.
As a cool winter type I was confused because in some jewel colours I didn't see myself and when shopping I tend to pick more subtle colours, more muted... now I know why!!! I think I suit most in the cool and delicate olive skin type. Thank you Merriam, this video is so clarifying!!
Finally, I understand why Kim Kardashian's nude lip doesn't suit me! I though we were fairly similar, so I went to MAC and tried Subculture, Stripdown, Spice and Whirl lip pencils, and Velvet Teddy lipstick (supposedly the K sisters' favorites). They made me look so drained and gray... Defeated, I refused to wear nude lips for years until one day I stopped by a MAC counter, told the MUA my issue and he immediately suggested Soar. It's the perfect shade for me; Kim's nudes are too brown, I need a hint of rose. What's the difference? Kim and I are both Medium, Delicate and Olive, but she's Cool and I'm Warm. Everything makes so much sense now.
Hey! We'll become tanned but it's a cooler version. You can have cool goldens, cool tans, cool browns etc. Just like with much darker black skin. Even when we are tanned, we're still a cool tan 💖
I have cool olive and even when i tan , those neutral-warm eyeshadow palettes still looks red on me. The so called natural brown eyeshadows look straight up red or orange.
I have been told all my life that i have cool tone so pink undertone. Then I used mixing pigments and made the perfect match and it was noticabley blue green. Im so pale but blush doesnt show up on me because I realized that my green skin tone cancels the red out so it makes them pale purple or orange toned and it blends into my contour or bronzer.
I have light skin with a dusky greenish-grey undertone. I have no peach or pinky tones to my skin at all when I see my skin I see a mix of muted blue and muted yellow. I definitely am a delicate skin tone but I'm torn as to whether I'm cool or warm olive. I have hazel green eyes, close to army green in colour, I have medium- dark brown hair ashy toned. I look good in ivory but also good in grey-white. I look good in muted pale pink but can also do subtle peach. I love charcoal grey on me but I also look good in brown. My best colour army green. My worst colours are royal blue, optic white, orange or buttermilk yellow.
warm and delicate! but sounds like you're extremely close to neutral so the colors can quickly get too rich for you. don't be afraid to pull from cool and delicate.
Thanks a million, I'm so close to neutral! Everything I own is pink, green, charcoal or ivory. I'm afraid of any other colours. I was happy though that for both CD and WD olives you showed them both with either warm or cool greens and pinks so I'm on the right track at least.
This video was fascinating! For years, I have been so confused about my skin. I am naturally fair and freckled and have dark hazel eyes and almost black hair. All of that sounds like I would be warm but I look awful in gold and silver makes my skin glow. But almost every foundation was either too muddy or too pink. If I wear too many warm browns, it’s not flattering. I truly have to find the most neutral colored makeup, like my lipsticks always have to be close to my natural lip color. After watching this video I’m pretty confident that I’m a cool delicate. Thank you so much for posting this, about to go watch your other videos!
Merriam you are so incredible I mean you share these topics with so much passion, you take time and lots of thought in what you show here on TH-cam, with the simplified concepts that you create you make it so much easier to figure out body typing, color analysis thank you from the bottom of my heart for your hard and amazing work 😍💕
I feel like we look related, you actually look like my cousin but with my colouring and it’s tripping me out a bit. But your analysis is super helpful to me! Thank you!
finally i understood the whole thing about my delicate cool olive typ!! thank you!!! i always wondered why i don't like these bright blues and magentas on me :)
Everything about the cool delicate olive color pallette resonates with me. These are the colors I've naturally always been drawn to... but I'm Eastern European descent with light brown hair and blue eyes (sometimes more blue-grey, sometimes more blue-green). Can I still be this color palette??
Amazing video!!! ❤ All of the videos I've watched so far focused on warm olives skins, but I'm a soft summer and I've got a cool and delicate olive undertone and none of those fitted me. Thank you for this video 😊
this helps a lot ! I found out im cool and finally accepting this.. after years of denial lol. and now I know Im a cool and radient! I feel like I finally have this nailed down
Wow this was so helpful!! Your examples of how different clothing colors against my skin showed me I'm a cool and delicate olive. I was so confused about why certain colors didn't work on me. I know what looks good on me when I see it, but it is SUPER helpful to have direct color recommendations for my skin!! Now I know why I have so many mauve lipsticks, lol
In winter I look pale yellow and I look better in pinks, greys, light denim...in summer I look very tanned and I think I can go for some warm colours, but still if I wear orange it just makes me look ill! Cool and delicate def works best for me when I am pale and when I am darker.
It's always one step forward,ten steps back for me with these videos😅 wish i could just pay for a consultation because figuring this out alone is hard work 🤣
Hi! Thanks for these videos. I think I am Olive cool and delicate, and I am transitioning to gray hair. What would you recommend to make the hair and skin blend better?
I am definitely olive. My skin is the color of tan desert sand dunes with pink and yellow here and there... I also think I am cool and delicate. I love those muted colors near my skin. They bring out contours of my face too. Also I have dark eyes and hair. Thanks so much for doing this. I also thought i should be able to wear stark white, but it didn’t look as good as I thought. I should try the leaning gray. However I can’t use a grayish blue eyeshadow because it makes me look dead.
This is what I am... wow.. this was so helpfull thank you. I also understand now why I always thought I looked a little like rachel weisz. Its cause we have the same hair colour, skin tone and kibbe body type lol I always wondered if it was wishfull thinking or if I was blind but now it makes sense
You made me realize why it seems like none of the usual neutral colors seem to work as eyeshadow for me. I'm radiant cool olive. So brown looks a bit off/too warm, even cooler browns don't look quite right sometimes. And then grays don't necessarily work either because they're too gray and I'm radiant. So I'm wondering which colors would serve as "neutral" for someone like me? I think I look pretty good in an olive eyeshadow, but definitely not olive clothing. Also silver eyeshadow looks great, but straight gray is too flat. So I THINK olive, cool/dirty gold, silver, and probably a pale champagne gold color are going to suit me best as "neutral" makeup shades. Either that or I just can't wear neutrals or near neutrals at all. 😂 I'm a dark winter color type so this almost seems counter intuitive as these makeup colors are not purely cool toned, but I look fantastic in dark winter clothing.
Haha i look absolutely terrible in peach, that and my very obvious greeness has lead me to believe im a cool delicate olive skin tone. I look good with muted colors and jewel tones. Purple and lavender are always a safe bet and deep blues look lovely on me. I love pink so i struggle a bit with it when online shopping (as some things look cooler and then its peachier and makes me look gray) but still. I really appreciate your content for helping me figure out my palette ♡
This was super helpful! I looked into another popular color typing system and, while it was helpful, I didn't feel like I fit into any of the options. I kept saying "I'm dark, cool, and muted!" but there was no option for that. I'm also olive which has only confused me more. Thank you, thank you!
could you do more videos on indian skin tones? I feel like indian people have a very unique undertone and for me it is very difficult to figure out exactly what I am. Love your videos!!
Great video, thanks! Very informative. Can you do another on Medium olive tones, like Kim K. (when she doesn't have self-tanner on) and others in that range please?
I could (I probably will in the future!) but really it would be the same exact stuff just different photos. Kim K looks amazing in cool grays and muted blues for example.
@@merriamstyle Thanks, makes sense. I have somewhere b/w your coloring and hers depending on the time of year (pale olive in Winter and golden tan in Summer). Question: Does anything change because of the tan during the warm months? Thanks for all your wisdom💃✌
The only thing I miss from this video from the Warm Olive one is the jewelry breakdown though. Any suggestions? Both for Cool and Bright and Cool and Delicate Olives. :)
If you are a Bright Winter, stick to silver, platinum, brushed silver/gold or rhodium. Rose gold is way too neutral unless youre wanting the jewellery to disappear into your skin.
Hey cool olives out there 😊 Can we all share some makeup recommendations down here so we can get some ideas? I'm waiting to see your choices to add some products to my whislist 🖤
I am loving the Physicians Formula shimmer strips for highlight, eyes and sometimes even blush. It has that champagne type of tone to it. Nice and subtle, but healthy looking. Because of being "delicate", I also like to keep newspaper with my lipsticks. If you blot with it, it'll impart a little sheet black to tone down too- bright lipstick colors.
María I’m pretty sure I am a cool and delicate. I have that greenish/gray cast to my skin. Anyway I have found some favorites after much experimentation. First I don’t use foundation as I could never find a match, so just tinted sunscreen. Favorites include CoverFX bronzer (Sunkissed), CoverFX highlight (Moonlight), Elf small blush (Mellow Mauve), and NYX intense butter gloss (Tres Leches) is my nearly perfect nude. I enjoy the Hourglass unlocked palette, but have to go easy as its almost too dark for me. Hope some of this helps. 💕💕
@@Kat-km9tm That trick sounds amazing! Thank you so much Kat😊😊
@@krisr92 Totally agree in the foundation, that's way I'm pretty obsessed with skincare so I don't need it! Thanks a lot for your advices I'm going to google swatches asap! Thank you Kris 🖤
@@maria4118 Me too! We olives need to have good skin because we can't find foundation 😂😭
But for make-up, I find that purples compliment the skin really nicely.
Merriam...please do another separate video on cool and radiant olives with more details, especially makeup colours and products? Thanks.
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Me: 🥺 (puts down leather jacket and gets off motorcycle) 😞
Misty Sunglow 😂😂😂
😂😂😂 I thought the same thing!
This comment made my day, lol
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Please do more videos on olive skin tone!
Yes please!!
Medium and dark olive
Yeahh
Its sad that I have spent decades thinking that I was warm-toned....while knowing that a warm-toned foundation would always be too yellow for my skin tone. So eventually I began looking for shades with a neutral undertone (because "cool" shades are too cool). Thank you for the demonstration and for making this so clear!
It's great that you clarified this! I find that the confusion with olive skin is the most common with people who are warm and delicate. They face the typical WD confusion (I look kind of warm, but yellow looks bad on me, but blue is ok, and silver is better than gold etc.), they have no clue what their undertone is anymore, and then they come across an article that explains to them that they just have olive skin, and olive skin is almost like a third category with its own set of recommendations. They think they've found the answer, but the reality is that it leaves them even more confused than they were.
I know tell me about it!! I've been so frustrated with seeing 'olive' as an additional category....cool, warm, olive.....ohhhh and as a bonus, my favorite is 'cool, warm, olive, deep'. Olive has become a catch all for anyone who's told by society that they should be warm when they aren't, so that's you know, the majority of the people of the world (east asians, north africa/arab, india/pakistan, thailand, south america, mexico, I'm sure I've missed a ton, Spain, Italy, maybe some Greece, Portugal.....REDHEADS for goodness sake!).
@@merriamstyle Yes...Very frustrating how, when something's not completely obvious, but there's _nothing_ abstract about it, people who don't understand it well enough tend to mystify it and present it to everyone else as something abstract. And people gladly buy into it! And then we get things like "Olive skin looks warm, but is cool at its core". What core? A color _is_ what it looks like. Why would my skin, which looks subtly golden (it's WD), actually work best with icy blues, because that's somehow its essence? Doesn't make any sense.
yes *thank you* a skin color is a color after all....yes, some lighting will sometimes reflect the cool tones disproportionately, and some lighting will reflect the warm tones disproportionately, but in neutral daylight, there is such a thing as your skin's actual color when all those different factors (types of melanin, blood vessels, other stuff) all combine to make your skin tone.
@@merriamstyle Yes...And the same type of reasoning would be laughed out of the room if it were said about the color of anything else but skin. Imagine if I wrote a whole article about how my white wall actually has a yellow undertone with white overtones because when it's affected by the light of my lamp, it looks yellow! Everyone would realize that the reasoning is ridiculous. And I guess that's also a downside of spacial metaphors: they can be misleading. An undertone really refers to a pigment _within_ the color, i.e. one of the pigments that make it up, but the language makes people think that it's somehow underneath, and then that there's also something separate on top.
*yes omg*
Royal blue is a cool tone blue looks amazing on cool olive skin (vs. the warm bright blue you showed in video). I get so many compliments when wearing a royal blue and emerald green. For lipstick, go for a blue red (which is a cool red) but not orange red.
Every time I watch these videos, I feel like I understand everything better, but then they say something that throws me off completely, and I end up even more confused..
That's interesting. What's an example of something that confused you? It can definitely be a lot of info to take in at once.
Same airg
Go to 12 season color theory
Her theory is not consistent
Haha exactly. I watched like 10-15 videos and I'm still confused.
lol me too I thought I was the only one
I grew up feeling my most confident wearing a cool red, so it confused me that I didn’t look as good in other similarly bold/jewel tones. Thank you for explaining why cool red and emerald green look great on me but bright blue and even white have always seemed a bit off! White always felt a bit overpowering, so for my wedding I wore a red dress instead of white. I now feel so validated for my gut feeling!!
yay! we often truly do know what looks wonderful on us.
Red wedding dress? That’s so cool!
That's awesome I wore a light blush colored wedding dress for the same reason!
Bright white looks really off on me as well. I am pretty yellow leaning.
yes so validating! I agree with you about white feeling overpowering. I feel like a stadium light when I wear white, but I don't feel as overwhelmed in all black or all cranberry.
Oh god this is EXACTLY the video I needed - now I know I’m fair olive cool radiant. I’ve been matched incorrectly by many, many baffled Sephora employees, and always felt there was just something wrong. Emerald green, sapphire blue, and cool deep red are the colors I look best in, gold looks like costume jewelry on me, and pure white looks just a little odd. Thanks so much for this!
Hi! Do you have a celebrity reference that’s also a cool radiant olive? ❤
yess and MAGENTA oh my god
Violet will look gorgeous on you too. I'm fair olive cool radiant and people always compliment me when I wear violet clothes - especially when I wear them close to my face.
Finally I understand why I look good in emerald green but silver highlighter makes me look strange. Thank you so much for this video, Merriam!!!!!!! 💗💗💗
Wow i think i just figure out that i have a light olive skin tone (possibly cool, still haven't figured out what colors suit me). I've always ended up with "neutral" foundations because neither warm or cool descriptions seemed right, and olive was described as tan/mediterranean. I am naturally pale but TAN very easily (don't burn), with skin that looks both yellow and gray? Your example of gemma chan was so helpful! More non-white examples please :)
Years ago in the 1970's I quickly found out that I was cool olive skin tone in a very awfully rude way. I sat in a beauty salon that had florescent lighting. Florescent lights have green and blue spectrum that completely flood your olive skin making you look pale, grey, sick, dead and absolutely ugly. Since then beauty salons, offices and stores have been using florescent lights that have conspired to kill my looks. LOL. One episode of Seinfeld even addressed that dilemma. Seinfeld was attracted to a very attractive lady. Each time she sat in regular natural light she looked fine, but when she moved to a seat in the restaurant under florescent lighting, she looked terrible! Seinfeld could not understand how she was beautiful near at a seat near a window facing natural light and terrible when she sat at that specific table. So, if you want to know if you have cool olive skin tone, switch between a florescent light, and day light to see the effects on your skin tone.
Lol😂😂every time I see these videos I remember this episode 😂, despite I like looking like a vampire under neon 😂
That episode was priceless. 😂
I want to say THANK YOU for including Chinese celebrities. There is so little good information on Chinese skin tones on the web. I’m happy to see more makeup companies adding a peach undertone to their foundation lines, as this can flatter us better than yellow and olive undertone foundations. Thank you for this great video! 😘
This woman is on to comething she’s brilliant.
Thank you so much for this video. While I knew that I'm an olive-type, my skin shade (tan-ness) convinced me that I was some class of Warm. But I never understood why the classic Warm colours (brick red, burnt sienna, yellow ochre) never really worked for me. Your explanation of the gravitation towards emerald and cool reds was the thing that finally made me realise that I'm actually Cool-typed! It also really helped that you found Gemma Chan to show how Optic White looks on a Cool/Delicate person. Being of east asian descent myself, I never realised that skin with a tan like hers (and mine) could have ever been typed as Cool/Delicate.
aw yay!! I'm happy Gemma as an example helped you, I spent soooo long trying to find just that perfect example to show.
FINALLY FINDING MY COLOR. This has been honestly life changing. I always thought I had to be warm bc I'm half asian and I can tan but omg I am a COOL & DELICATE.
yay!!!
Also you can be cool in the winter but warm when you tan in the summer
@@GM-xo7yy OMG yesss!!!
Thank you! That explains everything. I always thought why being winter colour type I look better in kind of “summer colours”. I just didn’t know I belong to cool delicate olive type.
I'm so glad you brought up the Clear winter olive dilemma! I watched of your other videos, and casually said out loud “huh, I might be olive“ only for my fiance to say “oh yeah, you definitely are!“ as if I hadn't been looking for the answer to my skin tone for YEARS 😅
This is super helpful! I used to have an emerald green top ( cool, delicate olive ,here) and people who have never said one word to me before, went out of their way to compliment me on how great I looked. And blues are very tricky. Never fully got it until now! You really have colors figured out!
Reminds me of Rogelio from Jane The Virgin "I don't pop in peach!"
Caty Herndon LoL, I remember that scene, he really made that show!
@@inabind416 he is on the new show Broke Nd is playing the same type of character
I think I'm a muted cool and delicate olive because burgundy looks amazing on me, even burgundy lipstick looks really good, and it's my go-to colour. Even dark plum looks good. I also tend to lean towards ashy browns and beiges, dark and light grey, dark forest greens, dark purple, mauve, taupe and dusty pink. I wore royal blue once and it looked so separate on me that I never wore it again. I've never worn emerald green before, so I can't attest to know whether it looks good on me or not, but according to the other examples it seems like I'm a muted cool and delicate.
Omg, you've basically described my wardrobe! It's crazy how I thought I was warm toned just because I was olive, but this is really eye opening.
This is very interesting. We have very similar looks, hair , eyes, brows, even skin. It's like you could almost be my sister with some different face features. But I would consider myself cool and bright. I am so amazed how skin tone changes everything!
The colour theory you included at the beginning *chef's kiss*
You are the only person who knews really explain properly the different bwtween skin tones. Im like you light cool and delicate olive skin tone.
😭😭😭 I wish you would’ve done this years ago. I was always after achieving a nude look but never achieved it. I’m embarrassed to say how much money I spent on makeup. I see it now, I am olive tone Cool and Radiant. Thank you Merriam. 🙏🏻
This is hands down the best cool olive tone video I've ever seen!!! Thank you for breaking down the color theory and the key tips to look out for when determining cool and delicate vs. cool and radiant for us cool olive folks!
I’m Greek and I always knew I was olive but I didn’t know I was also cool until recently.. blows my mind. If I put on cool makeup it looks crazy. I always wear neutral.. it’s not exact but it’s better than cool or warm.
I am warm and delicate Olive but in the cooler side of that. I can support some warm and delicate in clothes but I can’t use those tones on for makeup. I even can use silver highlight and looks great. I suspect is because I have much more pink on my face. In winter, I can even use muted and cool colors and I love how I look in them.
I think I'm a warm olive. Could you do a video on how the olive-ness impacts which colors flatter us most, compared with non-olive ppl?
I think I'm warm radient olive and for me a warm orange fits me best, but not too neon orange, I guess it is a good complementary color to the warm green undertone. :) I also like forest green bu it makes me look more yellowish. Google "Eva Longoria green dress" she looks great in forest green but not healthy in cool emerald green.
I believe I'm a warm olive. Navy, maroon suits me a lot! Can almost blindly go for these two. Also grey, dark olive looks great. As the previous person said, dark/burnt orange (not neon) or terracotta will look great as well.
@@afrinsayed5902 all the same for me too! :)
You look absolutely amazing in this video and this make up and hair and everything looks stunning on you!!
I absolutely love your content! ❤️❤️ You've clarified lifelong questions for me. It seems like I have a cool olive skin tone. I used to think I was just a cool tone, but I've always struggled with certain colors. While navy and muted pink looked very good on me, bright tones make my skin appear gray, and I used to be very confused about why that's the case. I heard about cool undertones looking good in silver, but silver didn’t flatter me at all. Because of that, for a while, I thought I had warm undertones. However, yellow and orange also look hideous on me 😂 until I came across your content, and now everything makes a lot of sense ❤️ Thank you so much for sharing this information!
I'm cool toned and always wondered why I look good in light grey but royal blue seemed "too much" on me; this video taught me I must be cool and delicate. Thank you so much. I would love to see more hair colour and make-up tips, e.g. 'right' vs 'wrong' colours, and also tips for colouring hair as you age - so many hairdressers say to lighten and warm up hair as you get older, but after this video I'm no so sure. Thanks again!
This is the best in-depth video on light olive skin tones, thank you so much for this.
I'm so happy I found that I'm a cool & delicate light olive, I've been so confused about my undertone for so long cause everywhere was telling me I'm a summer but a lot of the blue and pink colours that were recommended looked so off, and now I finally know why!
Thanks to you Merriam i discovered that i am cool and radiant with olive skin💗
This explains why never liked nude lipstick or eyeshadow. I wore nude lipstick and people asked if I was felt ok. This is a very helpful information. Thanks
Thank you. I do tan very well.. I am very pale, and gray. I have went to the palest of foundations but they always look yellow!
I think I’m a cool and delicate, this makes so much sense now! Burgundy looks amazing on me, it’s one of my favorite colors to wear!
This channel is so thorough on the topic of olive undertones, tysm!
Hi! Could you please give more examples of celebrities with cool and radiant skin? Thanks! I would love a video just for cool and radiant olives ❤
Thanks so much!!! Finally someone who helps women of color choose their best colors!
Thank you so much for these videos, they are so helpful ! Could you make a video on how to pick foundation for cool and delicate olive, and also how to differienciate between cool brown and warm brown (I was always told brown was a no-go for cool skin tones) ?
HOLY. CRAP. I fit the cool and delicate skin tone in every single way. This entire time I thought I was warm yellow because I'm asian but would get confused why gold isnt a great color on me. Thank you you're the only person I've seen make color theory make sense.
More videos on olive skin tones please!
THANK YOU Merriam you have explained away all of my frustrated confusion about my olive undertone!! 😭😭 I could hug you!!
I now know I am cool and delicate and everything from the best colors for me (which are almost exactly the color palette I've recently come up with after discovering I even have olive skin) to explaining why muted red but also emerald green look good on me (which didn't really line up with the rest of what I've been trying to learn about my colors!) -- I can't believe I finally have the answers. Now I have a significantly more exact way of selecting *anything* for my face or wardrobe. I feel so empowered! All I can say is, again, THANK YOU 😃🥰☺
By the way, for anyone reading this who is either still a little confused or who just wants to find someone who matches them here in the comments: I am light/fair skinned (burn easily, lol), of Scandinavian and German decent with a small hint of Jewish heritage. My hair is dark ashy blonde and I have blue eyes with a bit of green, and my best colors are what were listed for cool delicates including sage and hunter green, navy blue and rich, cool burgundy 😊
This is such a helpful video! I must be a delicate cool olive as you describe it. Now my colour choices make much more sense- thank you!!
My favourite colours to wear have always been blue shades; specifically light blue, caerulean and muted or dark blue ( but not the very saturated bright blue!); I have lots of navy, love black, off white and adore light pearly greys. Also wear cool leaning dark forest and emerald greens (avoiding those that pulls grass green with more warm or yellow tones) and muted cool raspberry dark reds! I never understood why though. I also like the paler and cool leaning beige tones.
I run away from bright and all true warm colours like olive green, bright true red or orange red, maroon, orange, yellow- and if I ended up with such an an item in the past it just sat in my closet unworn.
I always thought I was neutral in make up but not quite fitting either until I found out about olive skin and things started to make more of sense.. but when I saw warm colours recommended for olive skin tones I became confused as often these were very bad on me.
In make up I feel good with a bit of warmth and feel best in either soft peachy/ muted coral tones leaning nude (or “vivid peachy nudes”)- for example Tom Ford Spanish pink- or mauvy pinks (leaning more mauve than medium saturated rosy pink). Reds are best in duller raspberry/ plummy cool reds ( eg Cherries in the snow by Revlon). Rusty red colours are however awful (for example MAC Chili) as well as most straightforward medium saturated pinks which look a bit shrill. My best pink is pink pout from Revlon which has a lot of mauve and a bit of white in it making this almost mude violet-pink.
When feeling daring, Ruby woo from Mac is good (which also pulls blue), and though I own a few bright vivid colours (as in saturated vivid corals or strong fuchsia pinks) I always soften them down to a stain or add a nude on top to find them flattering. Lately I am experimenting with soft grey/ mauve leaning eye makeup and soft denim blue and liking it- my usual is a soft neutral brown in eye makeup and sometimes I wear peachy shadows from the renaissance Anastasia palette which also has cool red tones.
I hope this may be useful to someone. Thanks again!
Cool and radiant here!! None of the seasons tests seem to get it right. Your video was perfect and confirms what I have already learned through trial and error!
I’m finally figuring out my skin tones!!! Thank you so much for this video. I’m off to watch warm and delicate Olive because I suspect that’s where I fit.
Oh man... Now I understand why the bright "Clear Winter" colours never quite worked on me. I always felt like I looked grey/ashen.
Emerald green, and blue-toned red, have always made me feel so majestic and beautiful. Which means, I'm cool and delicate 🤯
I'm like Rachel Weisz. I have warm eyes, but I'm definitely cool toned.
Thank you, so much, for helping me demystify my light olive skin! 🥰
This has definitely made me think! I’m not overly pink undertoned nor am I yellow undertoned and so called “neutral” undertoned foundations make me look dead. Maybe I’m somewhere in the olive camp?
My short attention span just fast forwarded through the asians. My bfs a mix of greek, italian, indian, some other stuff. Hes reddish looking tho. He says im olive complected. He just felt the need to say that & compare. I didnt ask. Still have no clue what that even means 🙄🤷🏻♀️😁. Idk, ppl just say im light skinned. It only sinks in more when im alone like 🤷🏻♀️🤔hmmm... I always forget to compare myself to other "tanners" bc i dont usually think about it other than when im confused looking at my selfies. In person i just look at myself like idk. I just figure im tan. He is a bit darker than me. For a "white"... Dudes, just not idk browninish looking. I hear olives and i just think of eating olives, heh. In my head, yeah. I think im browninsh yellowish.
Very helpful. Your explanation of olive skin tone being the not rosy skin tone was very helpful. I’ve always been perceived as a Winter - dark hair and very light skin. But recently I was draped as a Summer. Your system makes sense of it all. I’m cool and delicate with light olive skin. Now I know why some of the very cool colors don’t work for me. Thanks for your help.
I am still so uncertain... lol. I feel like I'm in the middle between warm and cool. But I definitely identified with the cool delicate criteria: I look pretty good in true green, but not other colors (I sort of hate true red so I've never tried it). And white definitely washes me out, but so does any color that's cooler than my skin tone. And I look positively dead in lavender and pale blue. Typically I stick with gray and deep colors like maroon, navy, and purple... but I feel like I just haven't found the right shades for me. I remember when I was young I had a warm ivory shirt that looked amazing on my skin... so what the heck? Lol...
I keep switching between muted warm and muted cool, it's frustrating.
Luckily I don't have to leave the house lately.
Could it be, that you are cool delicate in winter and warm delicate in summer?
@@TH-pb4ux yep.
It's still annoying tho.
I am so confused about cool or warm ( I thought cool based on the videos but when I bought cool olive foundation it looked grey ) but this thought of winter vs summer could possibly explain my constant ever changing confusion.
@@TH-pb4ux oh it that a thing? I'm definitely delicate but with olive tones but not sure if I'm warm or cool.
@@paulinacardiel8709 Yes, skin colors change when getting tanned. They climbed a scale upwards. So it could be that you are delicate cool in winter and delicate warm in summer. Thus cooler tones tones fit u better in winter and warmer soft tones fit you better in summer. But radient colors never fit you, i suppose?
Thank you Merriam!
My whole life ive been feeling like my skin colour was a curse... and I've been searching for this kind of information for decades
I was classed as a autumn because of my yellowish pale olive tones but never looked great in autumn colours. I always been attracted to soft muted shades, so been wearing them just because I like them.
You helped me realize that I have a lot of gray in my skin, and seeing the difference between warm and cool olive made me wonder.. can you be right in-between? As I don't look bad in muted warm, nor muted cool.. and sometimes I can get away with wearing bright cool colours, but I could never wear bright warm yellow or warm green.
Thank you for your in-depth explanation and please do more of these videos, we pale olives needs all the help we can get. Shopping for clothes and make-up can be very frustrating, especially because not many understand the temperature difference in olives. 🌸
Yes I think so. Everyone’s skin tone is unique to them and in my personal self analysis, could dip into adjacent types. I’ve figured out that I am primarily cool, delicate, and olive when I’ve got zero sun tan (I’m very fair). The colors on the screen were spot on to my best colors with zero tan (time stamp 6:00). I also have clothing that could be considered warm and delicate and some cool and radiant that also look great on me. With the unlimited possibilities of hue, saturation, and chroma, it is likely there will be colors that can work uniquely for an individual but not everyone in the type. By the way, I tend to get more warm pigment in summer which lets me wear a few slightly warmer colors.
charlotte omg you’re my undertone twin! I have the exact same experience with the colors you mentioned!
Olive neutral
Maybe you're neutral, but we all have a side which makes us glow. I have olive skin and I'm a cool neutral. You can see the difference if you put some warm yellow or orange down your neck and black or a real purple tone. Take a picture and see... If the orange/yellow tone looks better on you, you're a warm neutral and if the purple/black looks better you're a cool neutral.
@@mariliaoliveira9532 appreciate your comment, will try it out :) I think I'm cool neutral like you
As a cool winter type I was confused because in some jewel colours I didn't see myself and when shopping I tend to pick more subtle colours, more muted... now I know why!!! I think I suit most in the cool and delicate olive skin type. Thank you Merriam, this video is so clarifying!!
I'm definitely cool delicate. Thank you so much for clarifying this up.
Finally, I understand why Kim Kardashian's nude lip doesn't suit me! I though we were fairly similar, so I went to MAC and tried Subculture, Stripdown, Spice and Whirl lip pencils, and Velvet Teddy lipstick (supposedly the K sisters' favorites). They made me look so drained and gray... Defeated, I refused to wear nude lips for years until one day I stopped by a MAC counter, told the MUA my issue and he immediately suggested Soar. It's the perfect shade for me; Kim's nudes are too brown, I need a hint of rose. What's the difference? Kim and I are both Medium, Delicate and Olive, but she's Cool and I'm Warm. Everything makes so much sense now.
Merriam! You're looking particularly great in this video! (not that you don't the other times, but there's something different here!)
aw thank you!!
I love it when you really get into color theory! Gladdens my heart.
This is the most clearly explained video about olive skins I've seen so far! I really appreciate it, thanks!
Hi, how does a tan effect us cool olives since we become more warm/golden looking?
i wanna know too (:
Hey! We'll become tanned but it's a cooler version. You can have cool goldens, cool tans, cool browns etc. Just like with much darker black skin. Even when we are tanned, we're still a cool tan 💖
I have cool olive and even when i tan , those neutral-warm eyeshadow palettes still looks red on me. The so called natural brown eyeshadows look straight up red or orange.
I have to use a carrot tan lotion, to look a bit golden..if i don't use anything, I'll look extremely ashy.
I get a true rose-gold tan with rosy flushed cheeks personally. I hate being tanned and avoid the sun.
I have been told all my life that i have cool tone so pink undertone. Then I used mixing pigments and made the perfect match and it was noticabley blue green. Im so pale but blush doesnt show up on me because I realized that my green skin tone cancels the red out so it makes them pale purple or orange toned and it blends into my contour or bronzer.
Yes,that makes sense now. I am pale olive ,warm and delicate. Glad i found your channel😉💚
I have light skin with a dusky greenish-grey undertone. I have no peach or pinky tones to my skin at all when I see my skin I see a mix of muted blue and muted yellow. I definitely am a delicate skin tone but I'm torn as to whether I'm cool or warm olive. I have hazel green eyes, close to army green in colour, I have medium- dark brown hair ashy toned. I look good in ivory but also good in grey-white. I look good in muted pale pink but can also do subtle peach. I love charcoal grey on me but I also look good in brown. My best colour army green. My worst colours are royal blue, optic white, orange or buttermilk yellow.
warm and delicate! but sounds like you're extremely close to neutral so the colors can quickly get too rich for you. don't be afraid to pull from cool and delicate.
Thanks a million, I'm so close to neutral! Everything I own is pink, green, charcoal or ivory. I'm afraid of any other colours. I was happy though that for both CD and WD olives you showed them both with either warm or cool greens and pinks so I'm on the right track at least.
This video was fascinating! For years, I have been so confused about my skin. I am naturally fair and freckled and have dark hazel eyes and almost black hair. All of that sounds like I would be warm but I look awful in gold and silver makes my skin glow. But almost every foundation was either too muddy or too pink. If I wear too many warm browns, it’s not flattering. I truly have to find the most neutral colored makeup, like my lipsticks always have to be close to my natural lip color. After watching this video I’m pretty confident that I’m a cool delicate. Thank you so much for posting this, about to go watch your other videos!
Merriam you are so incredible I mean you share these topics with so much passion, you take time and lots of thought in what you show here on TH-cam, with the simplified concepts that you create you make it so much easier to figure out body typing, color analysis thank you from the bottom of my heart for your hard and amazing work 😍💕
I feel like we look related, you actually look like my cousin but with my colouring and it’s tripping me out a bit. But your analysis is super helpful to me! Thank you!
finally i understood the whole thing about my delicate cool olive typ!! thank you!!! i always wondered why i don't like these bright blues and magentas on me :)
Everything about the cool delicate olive color pallette resonates with me. These are the colors I've naturally always been drawn to... but I'm Eastern European descent with light brown hair and blue eyes (sometimes more blue-grey, sometimes more blue-green). Can I still be this color palette??
Amazing video!!! ❤ All of the videos I've watched so far focused on warm olives skins, but I'm a soft summer and I've got a cool and delicate olive undertone and none of those fitted me. Thank you for this video 😊
YAY I've been waiting for this video! Can't wait to watch it.
By the way, you look great in what you're wearing today!
aw thank you!
Yes... your makeup is PERFECTION today!!
@@karenhanson359 :3!
I really enjoyed this video, Merriam! Would it be possible to mention about hair color for cool and soft olive skin? Thanks in advance!
Maria Zdravkova; yes a video about HAIR COLOR for cool, soft and olive skin would be great!
this helps a lot ! I found out im cool and finally accepting this.. after years of denial lol. and now I know Im a cool and radient! I feel like I finally have this nailed down
Wow this was so helpful!! Your examples of how different clothing colors against my skin showed me I'm a cool and delicate olive. I was so confused about why certain colors didn't work on me. I know what looks good on me when I see it, but it is SUPER helpful to have direct color recommendations for my skin!! Now I know why I have so many mauve lipsticks, lol
You’re literally stunning and I’m trying so hard to listen to what you’re saying but you’re so pretty 🥰🥰 thanks for the great video
If you don't have a video on this! I'd love to see cool and muted olive vs warm and muted olive :)
Thanks for the videos! You're lots of help!
Your videos on skin tones are the best and most helpfull ones Out there:)
In winter I look pale yellow and I look better in pinks, greys, light denim...in summer I look very tanned and I think I can go for some warm colours, but still if I wear orange it just makes me look ill! Cool and delicate def works best for me when I am pale and when I am darker.
It's always one step forward,ten steps back for me with these videos😅 wish i could just pay for a consultation because figuring this out alone is hard work 🤣
Hi! Thanks for these videos. I think I am Olive cool and delicate, and I am transitioning to gray hair. What would you recommend to make the hair and skin blend better?
Amazing! Please make a video about cool pink tones 😍
I am definitely olive. My skin is the color of tan desert sand dunes with pink and yellow here and there... I also think I am cool and delicate. I love those muted colors near my skin. They bring out contours of my face too. Also I have dark eyes and hair. Thanks so much for doing this. I also thought i should be able to wear stark white, but it didn’t look as good as I thought. I should try the leaning gray. However I can’t use a grayish blue eyeshadow because it makes me look dead.
Thank GOD for this video!! This is such a big help, Merriam! 💖
Rachel Weiss is very close to my mom in skin tone. Very helpful video! :)
This is what I am... wow.. this was so helpfull thank you. I also understand now why I always thought I looked a little like rachel weisz. Its cause we have the same hair colour, skin tone and kibbe body type lol I always wondered if it was wishfull thinking or if I was blind but now it makes sense
This has helped me so much in terms of figuring myself out. I’m cool and delicate olive. Really hard to foundation though.
You made me realize why it seems like none of the usual neutral colors seem to work as eyeshadow for me. I'm radiant cool olive. So brown looks a bit off/too warm, even cooler browns don't look quite right sometimes. And then grays don't necessarily work either because they're too gray and I'm radiant. So I'm wondering which colors would serve as "neutral" for someone like me? I think I look pretty good in an olive eyeshadow, but definitely not olive clothing. Also silver eyeshadow looks great, but straight gray is too flat.
So I THINK olive, cool/dirty gold, silver, and probably a pale champagne gold color are going to suit me best as "neutral" makeup shades. Either that or I just can't wear neutrals or near neutrals at all. 😂 I'm a dark winter color type so this almost seems counter intuitive as these makeup colors are not purely cool toned, but I look fantastic in dark winter clothing.
Excellent. Thank you so much. Very eye-opening.
Haha i look absolutely terrible in peach, that and my very obvious greeness has lead me to believe im a cool delicate olive skin tone. I look good with muted colors and jewel tones. Purple and lavender are always a safe bet and deep blues look lovely on me.
I love pink so i struggle a bit with it when online shopping (as some things look cooler and then its peachier and makes me look gray) but still. I really appreciate your content for helping me figure out my palette ♡
Please make a video about pinkish tones. Thanx 💗
Yes!! Have been waiting for this video for so long!🥰
This was super helpful! I looked into another popular color typing system and, while it was helpful, I didn't feel like I fit into any of the options. I kept saying "I'm dark, cool, and muted!" but there was no option for that. I'm also olive which has only confused me more. Thank you, thank you!
could you do more videos on indian skin tones? I feel like indian people have a very unique undertone and for me it is very difficult to figure out exactly what I am. Love your videos!!
Great video, thanks! Very informative.
Can you do another on Medium olive tones, like Kim K. (when she doesn't have self-tanner on) and others in that range please?
I could (I probably will in the future!) but really it would be the same exact stuff just different photos. Kim K looks amazing in cool grays and muted blues for example.
@@merriamstyle Thanks, makes sense. I have somewhere b/w your coloring and hers depending on the time of year (pale olive in Winter and golden tan in Summer).
Question: Does anything change because of the tan during the warm months? Thanks for all your wisdom💃✌
your videos are wonderful. So clear and necessarily detailed with great factual support.
I’m Cool and radiant and i love red cool lipstick (i’m soft gamine) can i use it like my signature look?
yes definitely that would be amazing
The only thing I miss from this video from the Warm Olive one is the jewelry breakdown though. Any suggestions? Both for Cool and Bright and Cool and Delicate Olives. :)
mszkamio yes I’d also love to know this :)
Same. I was thinking maybe white gold? Maybe even rose gold? Would love a video on it 😍
Yes! I would like to know that as well. I guess whit gold would be and option if it is not so bright.
If you are a Bright Winter, stick to silver, platinum, brushed silver/gold or rhodium. Rose gold is way too neutral unless youre wanting the jewellery to disappear into your skin.
pls do one for deeper olive tones/ diff shade ranges :)
For cool and delicate olive skin types, what do y’all wear for jewelry? :) Gold? Silver? Copper maybe?
brushed silver! copper or rose gold can work. avoid yellow gold.
@@merriamstyle Thank you for the reply! :)